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Overnight News Digest for November 16, 2022 (Get ready for Hunter Biden's laptop edition) [1]
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Date: 2022-11-16
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This country faces a lot of problems:
Climate change
Women’s bodily autonomy and desire not to die brutally for no reason
Children’s desire not to die brutally in their schools for no reason
Appalling income inequality
Environmental and racial injustice
And it’s a very good thing that the Dem-controlled House and Senate managed to address a couple of those issues over the past two years (and has almost two months to slip in a few more quick fixes).
Because some dude named Mike Garcia just had his race for Congress called in CA-27, which is race #218 to be called for a Republican in the House, which means Kevin McCarthy gets to be Speaker and one of the co-equal branches of government in the greatest country in the world has nothing else on its agenda but investigations of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Yep, that’s it.
Good thing we’ve got executive action.
In the meantime, there’s one more race to be won: The GA Senate runoff. Having 51 Senators will make a HUGE difference in moving things through the Senate faster — like appointments to the EPA, FERC, the Postal Service, and of course, all those Judges. We need WAY more pro-climate and anti-fascist judges on the bench, STAT!
All we have to do is win one last race:
x Just like we did in swing states across America last week & in GA in the runoffs last year, we are again providing free rides to the polls for Georgians in need. You can help us get our voters in need a ride to the polls with a RT & small contribution here.
https://t.co/iN30ARXBzk — Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) November 14, 2022
x Who’s joining me to phonebank in GA?
https://t.co/ZwjnKBbfBt — Dona Kim Murphey, MD PhD (@dunkindona) November 16, 2022
x Attn @MomsDemand friends in or near GA (or anywhere if you can phonebank): Mobilize! 🥳✨💙🗳 pic.twitter.com/9AWlXP9dCM — Stephannie 🌀 (@StephannieLn) November 10, 2022
So what’s next?
x Things I'm thinking about today:
- Dem campaigns/grassroots kicked ass
- McConnell says never was a red wave
- Michigan remains big story
- Need rewrite on Dem Hispanic narrative
- Winning the econ argument
- Getting louder 1/
https://t.co/BQ5ljCEcWJ — Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) November 16, 2022
Also, we’re not done yet with the current round of elections:
x Good morning and Happy Tuesday to everyone who is still feeling the glow of Katie Hobbs defeating phony Kari Lake, and are ready for MORE wins this week -- ballots need to be corrected in AZ, CA, and CO.
RT and CLICK HERE to beat Lauren Boebert.
https://t.co/hOSh0RTJeK — BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) November 15, 2022
And then there’s this:
x First day 💙💙💙 pic.twitter.com/0Gp1jvVpzk — Gisele Barreto Fetterman (@giselefetterman) November 15, 2022
x Whirlwind 24 hours. I’m already in D.C. getting oriented. Just ran into someone from our corner of the country who I respect so much: Congresswoman Mary Peltola of Alaska. Looking forward to working with her to deliver for our districts! pic.twitter.com/tsEsEP37oM — Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (@MGPforCongress) November 14, 2022
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In mid-October, a pair of climate activists from the group “Just Stop Oil” garnered substantial international media attention when they threw tomato soup across Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London’s National Gallery. “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?” they asked the shocked and visibly distraught crowd of onlookers. Now I have devoted much of my time and effort over the past several decades to the cause of meaningful climate action. And as someone who also studies what makes for effective climate communication, I worried that events like this could harm the cause to which I (and so many) have devoted my life. I thought about the way the event would be framed by the media—the viral spread of a terrible photo of what certainly appears to be the defacement of an iconic and priceless piece of art, accompanied by damning headlines of wonton destruction. My fears were realized. Characteristic of much of the media coverage, the New York Times ran an article headlined “Climate Protesters Throw Soup Over van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’” featuring the offending photo of the soup-splattered painting. Only if you made it to the end of the sixth paragraph did you learn that the painting was protected by a glass pane and not damaged. x "Throwing Soup at Art Shifted People’s Views of Climate Protests—But Maybe Not In The Right Way" | My recent commentary for Time (free access via @PennCSSM):
https://t.co/K0TFf9tmfx — Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) November 16, 2022
On the other hand, there are a few bits of good news. For instance, the issue of Loss and Damage is being addressed at COP27, which nobody expected would actually happen.
x 2/4.The room erupted into applause at the news and Parties said they look forward to the #SantiagoNetwork delivering much needed technical assistance to people and communities on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis. — Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) (@LossandDamage) November 16, 2022
x Really weird how the media stopped talking about inflation 24/7, now that the election is over, huh?
Weird. — Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) November 14, 2022
A quick aside moment for some casting of the blame:
x And the Ohio map declared unconstitutional 4x
And the disastrous NY map
And DeSantis’ destruction of every minority district
And the FL and TX voter suppression…
This is an all of the above problem. — Amy Caplan Guterman☮️✡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@AmyGuterman) November 14, 2022
Propublica — How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law
A meeting invite obtained by ProPublica shows that on Jan. 5, top DeSantis aides had a “Florida Redistricting Kick-off Call” with out-of-state operatives. Those outsiders had also been working with states across the country to help the Republican Party create a favorable election map. In the days after the call, the key GOP law firm working for DeSantis logged dozens of hours on the effort, invoices show. The firm has since billed the state more than $450,000 for its work on redistricting. A week and a half after the call, DeSantis unveiled his new map. No Florida governor had ever pushed their own district lines before. His plan wiped away half of the state’s Black-dominated congressional districts, dramatically curtailing Black voting power in America’s largest swing state. One of the districts, held by Democrat Al Lawson, had been created by the Florida Supreme Court just seven years before. Stretching along a swath of north Florida once dominated by tobacco and cotton plantations, it had drawn together Black communities largely populated by the descendants of sharecroppers and slaves. DeSantis shattered it, breaking the district into four pieces. He then tucked each fragment away in a majority-white, heavily Republican district.
Personally, as a New Yorker and a neighbor of Sean Patrick Maloney’s district, I can’t blame him enough. What a jerk.
And speaking of jerks, we’re still paying for Andrew Cuomo:
The former governor stacked New York’s highest court with conservatives who hijacked the state’s redistricting process. ...If Cuomo is known for anything beyond his miscreant behavior in office, it should be for his willingness to abet the state’s conservative forces for his personal gain, often to his own party’s disadvantage. Nowhere was this more obvious than his judicial appointments, where Cuomo routinely elevated conservative appointees—gleefully scoring points against his progressive opponents in Albany and New York City by moving the judicial branch rapidly to the right. In particular, he appointed four conservative-leaning judges to 14-year terms on the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest judicial body. They are the former Republican Janet DiFiore, Republican Michael Garcia, and conservative Democrats Anthony Cannatarro and Madeline Singas. Forming a majority of the court’s seven members, these four emerged as a bloc in the most recent session, voting together in 96 of 98 cases during the term that ended in mid 2022. ...their coup de grace was the ruling on New York state’s proposed redistricting. In April of this year, they sided with Republicans in a shock 4-3 decision that threw out the state’s redrawn maps, written by the Democratic-supermajority legislature, saying that they violated the state’s constitution. The opinion was written by Chief Judge DiFiore, with, of course, Judges Garcia, Singas, and Cannataro concurring… The judges went so far as to take redistricting power away from the legislature altogether, eventually reassigning the task to a special master of the court’s choosing.
And of course, there’s SCOTUS
In February, by a 5–4 vote, SCOTUS suspended the Voting Rights Act’s ban on racial gerrymandering. For decades, the VRA prohibited states from drawing congressional maps that dilute the votes of racial minorities by depriving them of a fair opportunity to elect their preferred representatives. Sensing an ally in the judiciary, red states brazenly violated this principle during the latest round of redistricting. In states like Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas, Republican lawmakers packed racial minorities into as few districts as possible. These lawmakers then carved up remaining minority communities, distributing them throughout majority-white districts. This tactic is the exact kind of racial gerrymandering that the VRA was designed to prevent, and the courts have consistently blocked racial gerrymanders from happening every cycle. The only question was whether the Supreme Court, with its newly confirmed far-right Supermajority, would actually enforce the VRA’s previous guarantees. ...Milligan had a sweeping impact. A federal judge in Georgia found that the state had drawn a similar racial gerrymander, but it declined to impose new maps, explaining that Milligan implied courts had to wait until after the midterms. A three-judge district court refused to block Texas’ new congressional map, which reduced Black and Latino representation, even though the Black and Latino populations grew substantially over the previous decade. A federal judge in South Carolina similarly slow-walked a suit over the state’s racial gerrymander of its congressional districts. And when a federal judge dared to invalidate Louisiana’s racial gerrymander, the Supreme Court reinstated it—just in case its intervention in Milligan wasn’t clear enough. Because voting remains racially polarized in these states, the elimination of districts with a large population of racial minorities means the elimination of Democratic districts….
Existential thought for the day:
x no man has all 5
1. a shotgun shack
2. a large automobile
3. a beautiful house
4. a beautiful wife
5. an answer to well how did I get here — maura quint (possibly parody sometimes depending) (@behindyourback) November 15, 2022
Sending y’all hugs.
x This hug <3 pic.twitter.com/aHkAw9RC6u — cat with confusing auras. (@cat_auras) November 11, 2022
So, how many days of Hunter Biden Laptop do you think Kevin McCarthy will allow his disfunctional caucus to indulge in? Will it be ALL OF THE DAYS, or will it be EVEN MORE?
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